Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-07-21
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MINNESOTA.

There were 22s deaths in Minneapolis
in June.
-Chinch bugs are rapidly increasing in
Rice county.
John Horner, "a years old, was
drowned at Duluth while bathing.
Sleepy Eye has sold $5O,OOO in city
fire bonds at premium of per cent.
Nearly $4,000 people left st. Paul by
rail the Fourth to celebrate in the .ccun-
try.
Duluth is growing. The jail is to be
increased to three times its present siz, and
capacity.
-Bennet Moen, a carpenter, was drown
ed at Morris. he was bathing and was
seized with cramps.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, was in st.
Paul recently. He astonished the report
ers by refusing to talk.
The sixteen saloons of Fergus Falls
have been closed, having failed to put up
the big license money.
An unsuccessful effort was made the
other night to blow open the postoffice safe
at Redwood Falls.
Proctor Knott was not among the at
fractions at ''the zenith city of the un-
sailed seas" on the Fourth.
The new assessment of personal prop
erty in Mankato shows total of 1881, 200,
an increase of 100000 over last year.
Duluth reports from twenty FIVE TO
fifty business houses and about 600 resi-
dences built or under way SO far this year.
--Thos. Moore, a well-known st. Paul
saloon keeper, was shot, perhaps fatally,
the other day by colored man named
Chas. Hamilton.
Paddy Mcdonald was knocked out in
six rounds at Duluth recently by John P.
Glow. Mcdonald was sonseless seven
minutes. The match was for $500 side.
M. L. Fuller, carpenter, was killed
by the cars at Mankato the other day. He
had been seen during the day in m intoxi-
Gated condition. He had wife and four
children.
Tho old Metropolitan hotel property
in ST. Paul, seventy y-four feet on West
Third street, 1913 feet on Washington and
104a feet on West Fourth street, has been
sold TO George Benz and Arnold Kalman
for s64,O00.
AT Rochester recently Aleck White was
struck full in the back by the wad from
cannon, which was prematurely discharged,
and at an examination three of his ribs
We're found broken away from tho spine,
and also that he had sustained internal in
juries. he may recover.
Tile following statistics willb, of in
terest. Besides the State capital and
State university, there are twelve Minne-
sofa S ate institutions located in the fol.
lowing plnces, and with appropriations of
money made by the legislature for the
years 1887 80 as stated in respect to
each: saltwater, penientiary, $223. 900;
Red Wing, State reform school, $4,000;
FariIault, deaf, dumb, blind and id OF asy-
lum, s332.500; Winonn, first normal
school, $1,000; Rochester, second asylum
for tie insane, S424, $50; Mankato, normal
school, Sl5, 500; Owatonna, State public
school for dependent and neglected chill
dren, S1l2.000: st. Peter, first hospital
for the insane, s4s4,7so; st. Cloud, nor
NAL school, $1,000 and State reformatory,
100000; Fergus Falls, third hospi nj for
the insane, sa4,2sO; Moorhead, fourth
normal school, $4,000. In all twelve
public institutions of a permanent charac-
ter are distributed over the State, and
with appropriations for three years ag-
gregating $1,94l 400, or in round numbers
Two million dollars. Minneapolis still
has the university and st. Paul the capi-
tol as located by the constitution. They
have no other State institutions except thu
agricultural fair grounds.